Saturday, August 10, 2013

Mounting an Image to Convert Windows Server 2012 R2 Core to Full Installation

PowerShell is proving more and more to be an Administrators right hand in handling many task. Converting a Core Installation to a GUI Installation in Windows Server 2012 R2 is one of those task. Many times I have come across a File Server that is running on Core and more roles such as Windows Deployment Services needs to be installed but is not supported. Here starts the story of either backing up the data or migrating the data off to another File Server or Storage resource. In a Full Install of Windows Server 2012 R2 that has been turned into Core running the PowerShell command

will install the Gui back on the server.However, if you run that same command on a Core Install you will get an error message as the screen below shows.

In a Core R2 Install to convert from the CUI to GUI we will have to mount an image of Server 2012 R2. To do this we will need the installation media on which we installed Server 2012 Core R2. Next we will have to make a Directory for our image to be mounted in. On our Server CoreServer we will make a directory called mount-image on the root of C:\ as shown below.

Next we will mount the image to the mount-image folder. Our install media is in the D:\ drive. We will need to see what version of Server we do need to mount. To do this we need to type the PowerShell command Get-WindowsImage -ImagePath D:\Sources\Install.wim
as seen below.
We installed Server 2012 Standard Core so we will mount Index Image 2 for the Full Server GUI.

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